Lectures On Scripture Comparison - Or Christianity Compared With Hinduism, Mohammedanism, The Ancient Philosophy, And Deism (1823) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DIVISION I. CHRISTIANITY AND HINDUISM COMPARED. LECTURE II. CHRISTIANITY AND HINDUISM COMPARED IN RELATION TO FACTS. KOMANS X. 18. But I say, Have they not heard? Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. The argument employed by the Apostle, in connexion with this passage, is twofold. First, that the Gentiles are included with the Jews in the Covenant of salvation; therefore, that in preaching the Gospel to them, however contrary to the prejudices of his countrymen, he, and his illustrious colleagues, were not only acting in obedience to the express commission of their Great Master, but in conformity to the revealed will of God, as exhibited in a variety of predictions and promises, not merely of a general character, but distinctly, and by name, referring to the Gentiles. Secondly, that it was not only the right of Gentile nations to hear the Gospel; but that they had actually, to a considerable extent, been made acquainted with it. " But I say, Have they " not heard ? Yes, verily, their sound went into " all the earth, and their words unto the ends " of the world." The allusion appears to be partly to the rapid and extensive progress of Christianity so soon after it's first propagation; so that even our native country heard the glad tidings in those early ages partly to that traditional knowledge of the most important facts and doctrines of revelation, which we can yet trace in all the systems of religion that have ever existed, notwithstanding the corruptions, superstitions, and idolatry, with which they are mingled, by which they are obscured, and under which they are buried and partly to that universal testimony borne by the works of God to his existence and attributes; and which ought to have awakened th...